Wenzelburger, Georg 'Schorsch' (Gren.Reg.1098)
- Date of birth:
- December 22nd, 1910 (Uhingen/Pomerania, Germany)
- Date of death:
- January 18th, 2000 (Grafenberg, Germany)
- Nationality:
- German (1933-1945, Third Reich)
Biography
Promotions:
1930: Soldat, entered the Reichswehr
1939:promoted to Feldwebel - Inf.Rgt. 13 - Ulm
1939-1940: Feldwebel and Zugführer in the 5. Inf.Div. - campaign in France (Sedan, Marne River, Paris, Auxerre)
1940: promoted to Oberfeldwebel
06.1941-1942: campaign in Russia : Bjalistok, Minsk, along the Njemen River
1941: promoted to Leutnant der Reserve - führer 9.(MG)/ Inf.Rgt. 56 (Cholm, Demjansk, Staraja Rusa)
1942: promoted to Oberleutnant der Reserve
01.1943: destroyed a soviet battalion at Ssawkino - credited with 16 days of close combat
16.-18.02.1943: credited with 19 days of close combat after defensive fightings at Godilwo
March 943: as führer II./ Inf.Rgt. 56 - fightings at Lake Ladoga and Witebsk
1944: promoted to Hauptmann der Reserve
Combats at Kilgis, Kreuzberg, Zinten, Schönheide, Zellmühle, Wartenstein and Warnen
26.12.1944: awarded the RK helding position with his battalion near Wirballen without any support being partially cut-off from his regiment and facing superior enemy forces
Beginning 1945: promoted to Major der Reserve
04.1945: pulled out from the front line and captured by the US in a hospital
Major Wenzelburger was credited with 78 days of close combat
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 5. Inf.Div.
- Awarded on:
- May 25th, 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
- Awarded on:
- August 22nd, 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- 9. / Jäger-Regiment 56
- Awarded on:
- March 18th, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- Führer III. / Jäger-Regiment 56
- Awarded on:
- May 5th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann
- Unit:
- Führer II.Bataillon / Grenadier-Regiments 1098 / 549.Volks-Grenadier-Division
- Awarded on:
- December 26th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Major
- Unit:
- Bataillonskommandeur Grenadier-Regiment 547
- Awarded on:
- February 18th, 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Hauptmann (Captain)
- Unit:
- II. Bataillon, Grenadier-Regiment 1093, 547. Volks-Grenadier-Division, Heer
- Awarded on:
- October 30th, 1944
Awarded for his first wound inflicted on the 18th of October 1944.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Oberfeldwebel (Warrant Officer)
- Awarded on:
- August 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- January 1st, 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- April 20th, 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- Photo 1: Known to STIWOT
- - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
- Ehrenblatt des Deutschen Heeres dated 5th May 1944
- Ritterkreuztraeger 1939 - 1945
- Georg Wenzelburger | Military Wiki | Fandom
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